- Microcerculus bambla
Identification
11.5 cm.
- Dark brown lores and ear-coverts
- Blackish-brown crown and upperparts
- Dark chocolate-brown wings with conspicious white bar
- Very short dark tail
- Dull greyish chin, darker grey throat
- Grey-brown chest, darker brown belly and flanks, faintly barred
- caurensis with brighter rufous upperparts, albigularis like caurensis but with paler throat
Sexes similar, juveniles without wingbar and with more scaly underparts
Distribution
Brazil, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela.
An uncommon but widely distributed species.
Taxonomy
Three subspecies recognized:
- M. b. albigularis in east Ecuador and western Amazonian Brazil and southeast Peru
- M. b. caurensis in east Venezuela (Amazonas and west Bolivar)
- M. b. bambla from southeast Venezuela (Auyan-tepui) to the Guianas and northeast Brazil
Habitat
Moist lowland forests with wet understorey and rich in rotting logs.
Occurs from sea-level up to 1100m, sometimes higher. Usually at lower levels than Flutist Wren.
Behaviour
Diet
Seen feeding on moths, worms, spiders, orthopterans and tiny frogs.
Forages on the ground or very low in the vegetation. Often around rotten logs and detritus from rotting trees, rarely explores leaf litter.
Breeding
Two described nests were in a cavity in a termite nest, probably previously made by Yellow-billed Jacamar. In each nest one nestling was found.
Movements
This is a sedentary species. Apparently sedentary.
Reference
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2014. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: Version 6.9., with updates to August 2014. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
- Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2015. IOC World Bird Names (version 5.2). Available at http://www.worldbirdnames.org/.
- Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved June 2015)
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Wing-banded Wren. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 9 November 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Wing-banded_Wren
